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These are just 3 multipurpose clamps available through Woodpecker's site, but it felt like a specialized rig designed to make gluing up little boxes like this very easy, and solid.
The formula was lost to the sands of time here when I accidentally knocked the cup of dye over near the end of my painting work.
Just kidding - I could still read it, barely.
To make the boxes a little more professional, and homey, I'm going to use a small roundover bit with a bearing so I can just run all the edges around by hand quickly. This will give smooth, rounded edges everywhere, except inside the box, or on the dividers.
It's very easy with the 4" box clamps from Woodpeckers to get little pieces like this lined up square, at 90s with each other. I was able to visually align things to exactly where I wanted them, press everything in hard, and clamp pretty powerfully with the knobs.
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Gluing things has become a favorite way of building, and I'm sold on the concept of gluing things up with slight overhangs to then be sanded flush. Bringing things to a 400-grit finish really makes edges disappear.
After the glue dried, an hour or two later, I unclamped to reveal a solid little box. The edges are all a little bit long on purpose, to allow me to easily sand them flush, which gives a smooth, invisible joint that clamping alone cannot.
View inside the right shelf. Obviously, all 3 shelves seen here need their front ends rounded over when I get the appropriate roundover router bit (3/16").
Probably not too necessary, but I put the end pieces on outside, having cut them longer to match with the tops of the dividers, an I made sure the bowed side stuck out, so that I could put a clamp over the whole deal, and pull it flat, for a straight, warp-free glue-up.
I'm just trying to get the right pressure, duration, and angle with these tests. The left most example seems best. The date isn't quite in plane with the rest, so I need to rock it over to get the rest of the numbers in there.
Again, I'd kind of like a big, flat clamp that could press this entire thing from both sides, in a parallel way. Eight clamps is silly for such a little thing, but it was necessary. It took this many to finally see all of the gaps disappear.
A view of the bottom, and the back (at top) of the box. All thin edges protrude a bit to allow sanding them flush with their respective panels. It's a lot easier to sand a tiny bit off thin edges than to have to plane down entire faces, which would otherwise translate to walls that aren't to spec with the rest of the box.
With all the stuff in it, and the TV on it, and with some more drying time to let the stain calm down a bit, and out in a more sunny room, I think this will look very different, and probably a lot better than it does to me at this point.
Mom shipped me an old wooden inlay picture of a mountain scene. The box got a little beat up in transit. The stuff inside was fine. Well, it was broken, but I learned later it was always broken, and shipped to me that way to see if I could fix it, and if so, it's mine. Thanks, mom!